Now free for everyone — funded by donations

Your Google Workspace,
backed up with honesty.

Self-hosted backup for Gmail, Drive, Calendars, Contacts and Shared Drives. Your storage, your rules, and never a fake “success” report. Free forever — built and maintained as a labour of love.

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GWS Backup dashboard — Google Workspace backup software overview
A Labour of Love

Why we built our own Google Workspace backup

GWS Backup wasn't cooked up in a boardroom. As managed service providers, we needed backup software that worked the way we wanted — complete control over the backup process, instead of trusting third-party cloud storage we couldn't audit.

So we built it. Evening after evening, release after release, every screen has been argued over, torn up, and rebuilt until it felt right. You choose your own storage destination — S3, Google Cloud, or a local NAS — and your data never touches anyone else's infrastructure. We felt better knowing we controlled the space, and we think you will too.

That's also why it's free. Software built with this much care deserves to be used, not locked behind a subscription. If it saves your day (or your job), a donation keeps it alive.

— built with stubborn love by KIKO Solutions

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The End of Silent Failures

When you back up a workspace for the first time, every backup tool on earth hits the same wall: Google limits how often you can ask for data and how much you can move.

Other products simply tell you the backup completed successfully. In some cases, that isn't true!

We show the backup as stopped, explain the exact error, and resume at the next scheduled run. Only when the run has truly completed do we say so. We hate fake stats — honesty and transparency are our biggest features.

0

silent failures — ever

~50MB

RAM per client workspace

100%

your storage, your rules

£0

free forever — donations welcome

The Grand Tour

Every screen, crafted by hand

No stock dashboards, no bought-in modules. Scroll through the software the way we built it — one obsessed-over screen at a time. Click any screenshot to zoom in.

The Dashboard

Backup health, storage usage and system alerts at a glance — one calm screen that tells you the truth about the state of every workspace you protect.

  • Enterprise Edition manages one or many Google Workspaces
  • Family Edition protects individual Google accounts
  • Family safety tools — recover lost homework, monitor activity
GWS Backup — Dashboard
GWS Backup dashboard screenshot

The Backup Console

Every client, every endpoint, every active backup in one unified view. Problems are highlighted the moment they appear — never buried in a log file.

  • Snapshot of the last run for every client
  • Aggregate stats — data moved, transfer speeds
  • Predicted storage needs for the year ahead
GWS Backup — Backup Console
GWS Backup backup console screenshot

Watch the Bots Work, Live

Parallel backup bots read and write your data while staying politely inside Google's rate limits — and you can literally watch them work on the Live Monitor.

  • See every email and file as it transfers
  • Schedule and retention policy summary per client
  • Full audit trail — prove to clients everything is backed up
GWS Backup — Live Monitor
GWS Backup client backup page with live monitor screenshot

Restore Anything, To Anywhere

Entire workspaces, single accounts, or that one file the accounts team deleted on Friday. Backups work like version control — even ransomware-encrypted files can be rolled back to their originals.

  • Restore whole workspaces, accounts, or single items
  • 5-step Recovery Wizard with pre-flight safety checks
  • Point-in-time rollback defeats malware encryption
GWS Backup — Restore
GWS Backup restore screen screenshot

Deep Investigations

Find a specific email or Drive file across every backup you hold, in seconds, using deep search indexing — without downloading a single archive.

  • Search indexed backups across all clients
  • Read emails in basic form for investigations
  • Every action is audited and reportable
GWS Backup — Investigations
GWS Backup investigations screenshot

Reporting That Wins Clients

Every aspect of the software can be reported on — proof of your work for clients, or trends that justify a course of action. Custom-branded, and genuinely engaging.

  • Branded reports with stats, charts and tables
  • Export to PDF or Word (docx)
  • Evidence-grade audit output for compliance
GWS Backup — Global Reporting
GWS Backup global reporting screenshot

…and the tools behind the scenes

The unglamorous parts done properly — scheduling, retention, admin. Click any card for the full story.

Backup Scheduler screenshot

Scheduler

High-frequency incremental backups, overlap detection, and load-aware planning.

Data Retention Policy screenshot

Data Retention

Custom compliance policies tuned to your country's data protection law.

Client Management screenshot

Clients

Multiple Google Workspace domains from one interface — perfect for MSPs.

Workspace Admin screenshot

Workspace Admin

Everyday domain admin tasks handled inside GWS Backup itself.

Settings screenshot

Settings

Storage destinations, 2FA login security, appearance and team accounts.

Total Footprint Backup screenshot

Total Backup

Emails, Calendars, Contacts, Shared Drives — even desktop-synced folders.

Runs Where You Run

Flexible deployment options

Install GWS Backup wherever it fits best. No lock-in, full control.

Zero-Config Linux & cPanel

A lightweight, standalone .zip package. Drop it into cPanel or any Linux VPS and run. No complex dependency installations required.

Native Windows Installer

A standard .exe installer that handles everything natively, including bypassing sandbox restrictions and automatically setting up background services.

Official Docker Support

The ultimate "easy button" for self-hosting. Use our pre-configured Docker Compose file for instant, perfectly isolated deployment on any OS.

Pick Your Edition

Both editions. Both free.

Whether you're protecting a business or your family — register, receive your licence key, and you're away. No trial clocks, no feature ransoms.

For Personal Use

Family Edition

Secure your personal data and family memories with complete privacy.

£0 / forever

Donations welcome, never required.

  • Control your own storage
  • Automated daily backups
  • No silent failures
  • Easy file restoration
  • Family safety & monitoring tools
For Organizations

Enterprise Edition

Robust compliance, reporting, and multi-client management for IT teams and MSPs.

£0 / forever

Donations welcome, never required.

  • Everything in Family Edition
  • Client & Workspace Admin
  • Investigations & Audit Logging
  • Advanced Data Retention
  • Branded Global Reporting
The Fine Print, Made Friendly

Free as in genuinely free

GWS Backup is released under the GWS Backup Free Licence. It costs nothing and never will — but it isn't open source, and here's exactly what that means.

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You're free to…

  • Use it forever, at home or commercially
  • Back up unlimited workspaces & accounts
  • Run it on any server you control
  • Use it in your MSP business for paying clients
  • Recommend and share it with anyone
✕

You may not…

  • Rebrand or re-market it as your own product
  • Resell, sublicense or redistribute the software
  • Remove or alter GWS Backup branding
  • Reverse-engineer or modify the code
  • Claim ownership of any part of it
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Why not open source?

Years of evenings and weekends live in this codebase. Keeping the source closed stops others repackaging that work and selling it as their own — it's how we keep the free version free.

Want it under your brand, legitimately? That's exactly what our white-label programme is for.

Read the full licence
For MSPs & Resellers

Make it yours — properly

The free licence doesn't allow rebranding — but we do, commercially. If you'd like GWS Backup wearing your logo in front of your clients, we offer two routes, both handled personally by the developer who built it.

Tell us about your business and we'll come back with a straightforward quote. No sales team, no call-booking widget — just email.

Email a White-Label Enquiry
Option One

🏷️ White Label

Purchase the product as a white-label edition: your name, your logo, your colours — sold and supported under your own identity, with the same battle-tested engine underneath.

Option Two

🎨 Custom Branding, Fitted For You

Don't want the full white-label route? For a one-off fee we'll put your branding into the app for you — logo, colour palette and report templates — ready to deploy to your clients.

Ready When You Are

Start backing up like you mean it

Register in under a minute — we'll email your free licence key and download links. Your data will thank you.

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